January 1, 1945. Not even the Gestapo can stop time. "The 'air terrorists' are everywhere." "They want to wipe us out – sitting in their cosy bombers, oh such heroes...". Wolfgang Manhardt had put this remark down weeks ago and has now added, "Everything has a beginning but nobody cares to notice; everything has a half-way point and an end, but where do we stand now?" At the Metropol, in spite of everything, the interrogations continue: the Gestapo against communists and cinema projectionists, against harmless people caught up in the system, against priests and Jehovah's Witnesses, against anyone and everyone. The interrogator Manhardt against the prisoner Lilly Winter, who after 134 days and nights, he is yet to be finished with. "If I give up now, it will be the end of her", he writes in his diary. "Lilly, you have no idea what lies in store for you, the things I have to do to you."

About the author:

Fritz Lehner was born in 1948 in the Austrian province of Upper Austria. He is a graduate of the Vienna Film and Television Academy and is a script-writer and director. He is a member of the German Academy for the Performing Arts and of the Berlin College of Art. Some of Lehner’s films include: "Schöne Tag" (Beautiful Day), script and direction; "Mit meinen heißen Tränen" (With My Burning Tears), script and direction; "Jedermanns Fest" (Jedermann’s Feast), script and direction. He received the Austrian "Österreichischen Volksbildungspreis" award in 1979 and 1986; the "Prix Italia" in 1982 and 1983; the "Adolf-Grimme-Preis in Gold" award in 1982 and 1986; the "Landeskulturpreis Oberösterreich für Literatur" award in 1992 and the "Großen Diagonale-Preis" award in 2002. His debut novel "Я" was published by Seifert Verlag in 2003.